Environmental Writer
Climate Change/Energy / Food / Health / Sense of Place / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published April 22, 2022 · Last modified June 5, 2022
Picture your community transformed. In place of drab lawns around houses, town buildings, schools and businesses, there is a colorful collage of fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, perennial vegetables and annual crops —...
Climate Change/Energy / Ecological Values / Food / Health / Pollution/Waste / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published March 27, 2022 · Last modified April 3, 2022
During the growing season, I periodically join a crew of volunteers on a local farm, harvesting crates of vegetables headed for food banks. It lifts our spirits knowing that all this beautiful, wholesome produce...
Climate Change/Energy / Ecological Values / Health / Sustainable Practices / Technology
by Marina Schauffler · Published February 27, 2022 · Last modified March 29, 2022
After five years enduring a rain of toxic hairs from browntail moth caterpillars, Sally Donelson is ready for a novel solution. She has to suit up at her family’s lakefront camp in Litchfield —...
Climate Change/Energy / Coastal Issues / Economics / Sense of Place / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published January 30, 2022 · Last modified March 30, 2022
Weather disasters inflicted $145 billion in damages in the U.S. last year. The Northeast escaped largely unscathed, but that could change at any moment. More than 40 percent of Americans live in counties hit...
Climate Change/Energy / Ecological Values / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published January 2, 2022 · Last modified March 30, 2022
“Sign up to stop climate change,” the mailer read: “Save the world with renewable energy.” Even simplistic sales pitches can draw in electricity consumers. Purchasing green power to accelerate the transition off fossil fuels...
Climate Change/Energy / Economics / Health / Pollution/Waste / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published December 5, 2021 · Last modified March 30, 2022
The plastic industry could soon surpass coal in greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, its growing climate impact is largely unnoticed. Plastic is ubiquitous, filling stores, overtopping landfills and littering shorelines. It’s even within us,...
Climate Change/Energy / Economics / Sustainable Practices / Technology / Transportation/Travel
by Marina Schauffler · Published November 7, 2021 · Last modified March 30, 2022
Our family got an electric car two years ago and I have one major regret: I wish our previous cars could have been electric. Recalling years spent contending with the expense, pollution, noise, mechanical...
Climate Change/Energy / Ecological Values / Education/Family / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published October 24, 2021 · Last modified March 30, 2022
The leaf colors in our yard resemble a wine tasting, with shades from chardonnay to merlot. Amid this autumnal collage, incongruous pink and white cherry blossoms have emerged in response to the warm fall....
